How much is too much garlic?

[pokerfan]

Making my wild rice & mushroom pilaf and it's a trick question. There's no such thing as too much garlic.

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Any amount of garlic is too much garlic.

Hate the stuff.

[pokerfan]

5. Not even

to ward off a blood sucker?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. You don't have to eat garlic in order to ward off vampires.

Just hold up a few cloves and they'll run away. If I actually had to eat it to keep vampires away I'd be tempted to just let the vampires have me.

[pokerfan]

10. But if you eat it

you get to sweat it!

[ohiosmith]

14. You are,.....wise Van Helsing.

[Throd]

11. We cannot be friends

[elleng]

2. Right, trick question!

[MiddleFingerMom]

3. JUST posted this old story in another thread:

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Much tastier (and more socially-ostracizing) was not understanding the
difference between cloves of garlic and bulbs of garlic.
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MiddleFingerMomMom's spaghetti sauce recipe fortunately only called for
1 or 2 cloves for a big pot, so a 1-or-2-bulb sauce -- while pungent and
calling for courage and fortitude (intestinal and otherwise) was still edible
(on a VERY limited budget, most mistakes are much more edible than in
ordinary circumstances).
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Not knowing my mistake, for years I was willing to compromise by only
putting 10-12 cloves in. My GF at he time told me she could ALWAYS tell
when I had made spaghetti within the last 3 days as I would SWEAT garlic.
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That said, in NYC Little Italy, my BIL ordered "Chicken w/40 Cloves of
Garlic". Inserted in slits in the chicken, the literally 40 cloves were
roasted along with the chicken and came out mild and sweet -- I had a
taste and it was delicious.
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Though I liked my mistake with MFMM's spaghetti sauce, no one else
seemed to appreciate it when invited for dinner (thus the compromise).
Agreed -- there may be no such thing as "too much garlic" dependent
on an individual's taste.
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[pokerfan]

6. that

sounds awesome!

40 cloves were roasted along with the chicken and came out mild and sweet

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. I've mentioned this before, but...

...there's an excellent restaurant review site, authored by two guys who work at Google, called "Jason & Terry's Bay Area Review" ("JATBAR" for short).

They wrote 1000 reviews (the 100th being Google's cafeteria), then pretty much hung up their badges.

Once you've read a few of their reviews, you find out these guys prefer Mexican food, with Italian being somewhat low on their list.

They went to a local hole-in-the-wall Italian place, family owned, REAL Italian home-style cooking (the owner is a member of Sons of Italy and we used to have our meetings there. The interior is more like someone's house than a restaurant. It probably IS a house that was converted).

ANYWAY...

...these guys wrote a review and cried about how much garlic was "left on their plate" after the chicken marsala.

I laughed out loud. At one of the Sons of Italy meetings, one of the courses brought to the table was rigatoni with olive oil, garlic and Parmesan, and there had to have been a whole frikken' HEAD of garlic chopped up on that plate. The "ooohs" and "ahhhs" around the table were audible and robust. There was NO "garlic left on the plate" by the time everyone had served themselves.

:rofl:

[pokerfan]

8. It's also good pickled

[Tuesday Afternoon]

18. pickled garlic is teh awesome.

[Xipe Totec]

7. Gilroy, CA

Anything else is tame by comparison. :hi:

[Throd]

12. Garlic doesn't have enough garlic in it.

[pokerfan]

15. lol

my thoughts exactly

[MiddleFingerMom]

16. +1,000,000

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I can SEE Amerigo Vespucci nodding his head vigorously!!!!
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[SCantiGOP]

21. garlic may be

the only food I love that is actually very good for you.

[geardaddy]

22. +1 million

Just had some dhal with loads of garlic. I even put some raw garlic garnish on top.

Wanna smell? HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[Coyote_Bandit]

13. I love garlic but

there is indeed such a thing as too much garlic.

I never believed that until a dated a particular young man who loved to cook lasagna. He would put a whole entire jar of minced garlic in a 9 x 13 pan of lasagna. And use a sauce that contained even more garlic. It tasted great. The problem was that your breath reeked of garlic for days afterward.

[whistler162]

17. Well my friend Vlad says any garlic is too much....

[meegbear]

19. Reading your post reminded me of Lewis Black ...

he was doing his standup a few years ago and went off of DOMA. He said/ranted that people are all upset about the prospect of gay marriage. This should be on our national list of worries ... right after "Am I getting enough garlic in my diet".

[hobbit709]

20. What is this "too much garlic"?

[geardaddy]

23. In college I lived in Beijing for a year in the early 80s

and man do they love their garlic. It was in everything.

When I got home to MN, I was sleeping in my room because of bad jet lag, and I had the door closed so I wouldn't be disturbed. When my mom came to wake me up for dinner she open the door and said, "God, how much garlic did you have over there?" My room reeked of the garlic that was coming out through my skin.

[seabeyond]

24. i have yet to find too much. say two cloves, i do 6 and still i am ok with it.

i have wondered where too much is, also.

same with cilantro.